Posted on 01/05/2019 2:35:07 PM PST by Bratch
Sometimes we must call the baby ugly. CTH has followed and mapped how Mitch McConnell operates for over a decade. Here’s the deal as we see it…
Senate Leader Mitch McConnell has one major career alliance that has been unbroken and unchanged for well over two decades. That alliance is with the U.S. Chamber of Commerce and specifically with CoC President Tom Donohue. [SEE HERE and SEE HERE].
Mitch McConnell is stealthily working against the efforts of President Donald Trump. The effort is to support his primary Wall Street financial benefactor, Donohue. However, Mitch McConnell cannot directly be connected to underhanded efforts against President Trump because it would lead to: (A) questions about a confrontation; and (B) public exposure. [ex. think about how McConnell is blocking President Trump from recess appointments]
Mitch McConnell is up for election in 2020; in the exact same cycle as the reelection of President Trump. If it became more obvious what McConnell is doing, there’s a strong, heck, guaranteed, likelihood Trump would be empowered to turn against McConnell. Therefore Mitch McConnell has to be very careful about the visibility of how he undermines the President. Everything must have built in plausible deniability.
McConnell has a history of getting caught. However, fortunately for him people also have a tendency to forget (see McConnell’s scheme in the Mississippi 2014 Cochran race as an example). Almost no-one remembers that U.S. Senator Jim DeMint, the founder of the Senate Conservative Fund, quit the Senate specifically because of the schemes and internal Machiavellian power moves of Mitch McConnell.
So when the carefully constructed, pre-planned, pre-scheduled, and pre-organized public op-ed by incoming Senator Mitt Romney was deployed in the Washington Post… for those who have watched McConnell work; we knew exactly who orchestrated it and why.
Senator Romney will be one (not the only) visible face of the opposition. However, just like former Senator Corker and current Senator Sasse, the instructions (direct and indirect), and/or the approvals, will come from Leader McConnell’s office.
Through his power structure McConnell directly controls about 8 to 15 republican senators; we have called them “The Decepticons” for years. [Cornyn, Thune, Porter, Blunt, Portman, Burr, Barasso, Crapo, Murkowski, Gardner, Roberts, Sasse, Tillis, Graham and now Romney]
McConnell needed to test Romney’s commitment to the Decepticon club. Romney passed the test. Romney was rewarded with placement on the Senate Foreign Relations committee. Those Senators who sit on this committee get the most financial benefit from foreign lobbying. To understand the financial process think: Qatar & McCain Institute etc.
That’s what is going on internally…. and no, I doubt President Trump knows the scale of it; or maybe he does, and he has to pretend like he doesn’t to navigate his agenda… but somehow I doubt it.
To remind ourselves how Minority and Majority Senator McConnell took down the threat of the Tea Party revisit these old articles: CNN Part I and CNN Part II both showcase how McConnell works. Then do some research on how McConnell worked with Haley Barbour in Mississippi [SEE HERE].
Yes, Democrats are the opponents. However, the far more urgent MAGA enemy is Mitch McConnell.
There.
Mitch is safe only as long as he gets the judges approved.
Turtle may like his stay in the warm gulf waters of Guantanamo.
Red, White, and Blue vest time?
Pray. Then we pray some more.
“Pray. Then we pray some more.”
Amen.
They either got co-opted, or in the case of Catherine Engelbrecht and others who weren't able to be co-opted, the Federal government was used on them in violation of many, many laws.
You have to believe that Republicans were cooperating with those efforts.
In general, never trust a republican senator who has been in longer than two terms...
Pretty convenient how Jeff "Mormon Barbie" Flake managed to hold up the procession of judge confirmations.
The Turtle could have just ejected his Magic Underwear @ss from the committee, and kept on truckin'.
US Chamber of Commerce is all for your Mom, Wife or daughter, dancing naked if they can make one more dollar.
Believe it.
Agree 100%. McConnell supports Trump only if the chamber of commerce won’t throw a fit. Proof? He took reconcilliation off the table completely when the house passed the wall. Only would have needed 51 votes. He. Just. Wouldn’t.
Also, he’s to blame for the loss of Sessions AL seat. Moe Brooks would have won primary and election, but McConnell put the word out no money to Moe. Instead, it all went to Strange. 100% Mitch. The turtle hates Moe Brooks, because he enthusiastically supports the House Freedom Caucus guys.
AL people were torched enough to reject strange, but Moe would have won if he had $ support.
Look it up. It’s the truth.
Bookmark.
[Sometimes we must call the baby ugly.]
I like to use the term “breathtaking”.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6SAFkZ0OlKE
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u5ODpYnTBa8
Mitch is giving the impression of weakness. If he is not careful someone will go after him. The Chamber must be totally conflicted. Huge tax cuts, roll back regulations, and all that’s being asked is......the Wall.
A tea-party group targeted by Democrats gets attention from the IRS—and the FBI, OSHA, and the ATF.
By JILLIAN KAY MELCHIOR
May 20, 2013
https://www.nationalreview.com/2013/05/true-scandal-jillian-kay-melchior/
And speaking of "True The Vote", we also have to look at the glass of warm milk that Lyin' Paul Ryan served us up over the ballot harvesting in California.
Real "barn-burner" of a speech, that. I'm sure he followed up with a "stern letter".
This sell-out cr@p is getting old.
Frankly, I'm surprised the Chamber of Commerce doesn't get behind this wall in a very public way. The effectiveness of the wall is limited anyway (it does nothing to stop millions of people here on expired visas, for example), and they can easily trade their support for the wall for something else they really want like expanded H1-B visas.
I think there's something else going on here that has nothing to do with the wall. That's why the GOP and Trump waited until the final days of the last session of Congress to go through that whole charade.
He is just a crook like 99% of the others in DC. People need to understand it and be willing to do something about it.
We have a good start here on this thread.
Mitch is giving the impression of weakness. If he is not careful someone will go after him. The Chamber must be totally conflicted. Huge tax cuts, roll back regulations, and all that’s being asked is......the Wall.
They'd better quit playing around and get their minds right on Trump and us Deplorables.
They can certainly lose 10-20% of us as voters.
When it comes to Ryan and others in DC, those who are, obviously, two-faced gutless bottom feeders, follow the money and, my bet, is that it goes right to George Soros.
The Turtle.
Great on the judiciary.
A nightmare on immigration.
That’s the way it is.
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